It looks like _if_ got his USB device working, so now I'm confused. I don't know if I have incompatible hardware, or if I need to keeping going with the USB adapter I have. I've had it working on Windows XP. I'll see if I can get it going with OWFS and Linux.

on 10.04 everything is autodetected, I'm not shure if that is now for 8.10 as well...

basically you connect the interface, everything gets installed, then I believe you need a reload or even a restart, then there should show up childdevices in webadmin unter climate for each connected sensor with its ID already filled in, as far as I remember you need to set the type ("thermometer") manually and then place it at the floorplan. That should be it.

A couple years ago I bought a kit with one USB-adapter and two sensors from china for like 30bucks. I never got the USB adapter to work in linux using either digitemp nor OWFS, so it has been collecting dust ever since...

Guess if I got surprised when I plugged it into my 10.04 core and added it manually in web-admin and IT WORKS!! All I had to do was to plug it in, add the device in webadmin and assign it to a USB port. It detected the sensors automatically and now I can read the temp on my orbiters, WOW!

Is it possible to strip out the uninteresting device state data from whats displayed on the orbiters (ON/AUTO/) ?

@Gangsingen: I asked hari (who wrote the driver for 1wire) about that a while ago and his answer was that there would be needed a little modification in the climate plugin. I have not looked into it yet, but would like to get just the value displayer as well...

@Gangsingen: I asked hari (who wrote the driver for 1wire) about that a while ago and his answer was that there would be needed a little modification in the climate plugin. I have not looked into it yet, but would like to get just the value displayer as well...

IF

Yeah! "A little modification"..... Maybe a good starting point to start learning how the stuff really works under the hood?!!